925 Fulton In Turnaround
After unsuccessfully trying to sell 925 Fulton Street for, at one point at least, $1,500,000, the owner has given up and started to rehab the beautiful shell of a building. At the end of August, DOB granted permits for a complete gut renovation, including the construction of new stairs. This is great news for Fulton…
After unsuccessfully trying to sell 925 Fulton Street for, at one point at least, $1,500,000, the owner has given up and started to rehab the beautiful shell of a building. At the end of August, DOB granted permits for a complete gut renovation, including the construction of new stairs. This is great news for Fulton Street. This stretch of buildings on the corner of Waverly has long been a blight and a barrier to reviving the commercial strip. Now if only something could be done about the methadone clinic across the street.
Shell of Its Former Self, 925 Fulton Street For Sale [Brownstoner] GMAP P*Shark DOB
no that piece is older than 6 years zinka.ESPO is a legend when i comes to NYC graff.i even seen his stuff as far away as philly
is the quadriplegic who’s always on washington between atlantic and fulton a meth clinic client? he’s always there and sleeping on the doorway of the church every day and he doesn’t cause much trouble other than begging for money in the middle of traffic.
altho once i did see him exchanging something surreptitiously with another woman…
if you take the clinton/washingotn subway stop in the mornings, you can definitely hear the meth clinic clientele arguing/speaking loudly..hardly a quality of life issue, i guesss..
BTW, I am thinking that the Methadone clinic on Waverly should be moved to Park Slope. They have the amenities to continue to be desirable and withstand the negative stigma of the clinic.
Unfortunately for Waverly and Fulton, that’s not the case. Not enough neighborhood amenities.
I do agree that Park Slope still improved although there was a Methadone clinic on 8th Ave and 5th Street.
However, I would say that it improved INSPITE of the Methadone clinic.
When you have a wonderful amenity like Prospect Park and all the benefits you get from it, even a Methadone clinic could not stop the improvement of the neighborhood.
I would suggest, however, we have another example where a Methadone clinic had an opposite effect or where there are not enough neighborhood amenities to counteract the effects of such a clinic.
Far more than being destroyed by methadone clinics, neighborhoods are destroyed by multiple abandoned (and/or now, foreclosed) properties and lack of services, failure to maintain or provide housing, services and good schools, and populations struggling with unemployment or underemployment. A methadone clinic existed in Park Slope for nearly 30 years at 5th St. and 8th Ave., until it was replaced by Gilda’s Club in approx. 2003. Whatever issues/problems may have needed addressing, neighborhood gentrification clearly was not thwarted by the existence of that clinic, or by housing homeless in its armory. Park Slope was kept vital throughout by its diverse and working class population (only in the last decade or so brought close to extinction by the very gentrification that “improved” the neighborhood). Gentrification in Park Slope has also not been thwarted by more than one abandoned building near other “prime” locations, such as 7th Ave. & 2nd St. A singular measure of neighborhood vitality does not exist. It’s very good news that the building in question is being rehabilitated, but the matter is hardly as simple as the math of clinics and abandoned properties.
I spoke with the “Country Inn Diner” people and they told me that some of the addicts come in once in a while.
They caught an addict stealing tips from the table.
BTW, can anyone point to any statistics on the success of addicts after Methadone treatment? Does it actually work?
I’m sure that there are some meth clinic clients that are trying to turn their lives around, but enough that aren’t. The nice folks at Green Planet had to remove their bench (meant for their customers) out front because of non-customers taking it over. Sorry, but it looked like the meth crowd to me. They’ve recently put it back and will hopefully have better luck.
The bargain store guy next to Green Planet has similar complaints. So it’s not just neighbors but merchants that are less than thrilled with the clinic clients. I’m hoping the BID will do some good.
1842, Please CALL 311, it’s the only way to prevent someone from actually getting hurt. And it forces DOB on site to ensure the building is safe.
Well Brownstoner, knee-jerk? I’m sorry but if you had said that there are more meth clinics there than most other places, that are “poorly” run, you probably wouldn’t have gotten the blowback. Well documented or not, not everyone knows that. Good save though.